NRS-15271 | Minutes of meetings to discuss metropolitan and interurban passenger train performances

These meetings were attended by board members and branch representatives to discuss topics concerning the provision and operation of passenger and freight train services. Branches represented at the meetings include: Mechanical, Traffic, Way and Works, Signals and Communications, Locomotive Operations, and Electrical. Topics discussed include timetables, on-time running, training of guards, problems with train motors and compressors, and equipment failure. The reasons for incidents and train delays were discussed, and attributed to the respective branches. Meetings were held approximately every month. Some items contain duplicate copies of the minutes.Custody HistoryFrom 1955 until 2000 the State Rail Authority of New South Wales maintained an ‘in house archives’ consisting of the archival records of the Authority, its predecessor agencies and the private railway companies taken over by the government. The date ranges of the records were from 1849 until 2000. When the decision was made to close the ‘State Rail Archives’ the parts of the collection that were required as State archives were transferred to the State Records Authority of NSW. Those record series were incorporated into the State Records series system of archives control and were re-numbered.This series was formerly part of the State Rail Archives collection where it was identified as series R57. It may have been viewed in the State Rail Archives as series R57 and could have been previously cited as such in notes by researchers at State Rail Archives or in publications or unpublished works.